Celestial Reviews 107 - August 10, 1996
Note: People are constantly asking me where to find the stories I
review. I do not have time to respond to that question individually.
All stories are posted on alt.sex.stories. In addition, here are the
names and addresses of some people who archive their own or others’
stories:
Mark Aster has set up a Web site with all the Allens stories:
http://users.aol.com/myfrthal/
Ann Douglas has a home page at
http://members.aol.com/gajcom/annd
and will soon have a secondary site at
http://www2.inow.com/~jfjellst/AnnD/
Most of Deirdre’s stories are available at this web site:
http://serv1.tech-one.com/~bill/deirdre/
TG stories by several authors are archived at
http://satchmo.physik.TU-
Berlin.DE/~zirzlaff/nienor/pub/Stories/Nostrumos_Book/
Simon bar Sinister has a Mind-Control Story Archive at
http://www.galaxy.net/~simon/
Robot Fetish stories are posted at:
http://users.aol.com/robotdoll/asfr.html
Some hot femdom stories can be found at
http://www.webcom.com/~akasha/
Vickie Tern has told me that her stories can be downloaded for
free at
http://library.gaycafe.com/nifty/transgender/by_authors/Vickie_Te
rn
I assume other TG authors could be located at the same site by
dropping Vickie’s name and using the index.
Celestial Reviews are posted at: http://www.emi.u-
bordeaux.fr/~jay/Celeste
Elf Sternberg stories are posted at:
http://www.halcyon.com/elf/index.html
Sisters Ng stories are posted at:
http://members.aol.com/deidreng/index.htm
Tooshoes, the author of the Supergirl stories, has a site at
http://www.netcom.com/~tooshoes/PenPartners.html
Warthog stories are posted at:
http://www.connect.net/linetwo/stories.html
Estragon’s stories are available at two locations
ftp://unix.tpe.com/pub/estragon
and at
http://www.tpe.com/~mule.
The Wulf stories (and apparently some others) are archived at:
http://www.teleport.com/~marawuti.
Mary Anne Mohanraj posts her own stories at
http://www.internet-ireland.ie/maryanne
The following web page contains my reviews of the Top 100 Stories of
1995 along with the stories themselves:
http://proffa.cc.tut.fi/~k113973/
If any of these are no longer current or if there are others I should
add, please contact me. I am interested only in free, non-commercial
sites. However, I’ll also plug the following organization; although
they charge for membership, they GIVE stories away to non-members. (I
suppose they hope you’ll eventually join.)
The BackDrop Club offers a service of helping people who are looking for a
specific file, story, or a chapter or section of a story. If you are an adult
and know the name of the file you wish to receive, send a request using the
following format:
TO: file.archives@backdrop.com
SUBJECT: (the name of the file you wish as a single word)
I HAVE used this service myself, and it is my opinion that it is NOT a
rip-off. If you need more information, contact robin@backdrop.com.
The BackDrop Club also has a Web Page at http://www.fantasies.com.
Finally, Deja News is a search engine available on the World Wide Web.
It is possible (without additional cost beyond your service that
accesses the Web) to find most of the stories I review by entering a
few key words into the search box. To expedite matters, I suggest
using “alt.sex.stories” as part of your search strategy. You’ll get a
short list of “hits,” one of which will include the story you are
looking for. You then click on the story’s brief title, and the whole
text pops up on your screen, where you can save it to disk - even if
your service does not give you access to the a.s.s. newsgroup.
- Celeste
“In/Out Law" by Michael K. Smith (romance)
10, 10, 10
“Trinity Trilogy Novel 5/14” by Tom Trinity
(miscellaneous orgies) 10, 9.5, 10
“Memories of Underdevelopment” by Estragon (emerging
sexuality) 10, 10, 10
“Sarah and Sister Theresa” by Ann Douglas (romance)
9.5, 10, 10
“BiGirls” by Vickie Tern (transgender femdom) 10,10, 10
“Taking Chances” by Javahead (threesome with wife
watching) 10, 10, 10
*"Tell Me a Story" by smoot2 (fantasy plus live sex)
10, 10, 10
*"Churche House" by Deb Atwood (romance) 10, 10, 9.5
* Repost of a previous review (because the story may be
reposted soon).
“In/Out Law" by Michael K. Smith (mksmith@metronet.com). This is my
kind of short story. Actually, I have grown to enjoy stories that
include more unusual forms of sexual activity; but this story describes
the simpler kinds of events that I like to imagine happening in my own
life or in the lives of my friends. Tom has been married and divorced,
and during this story his sister-in-law tells Tom that his brother has
been cheating on her. Instead of fucking her brains out right then and
there, he tries to help her solve the problem and then makes gentle
love to her. Instead of having sex with the children, he converses
with them and helps them do well in school and adjust to the problems
of their life. Instead of suggesting a sex-change operation, torturing
the husband and his lover, proposing a threesome or foursome, or
resorting to mind control, he marries the lady; and they live happily
ever after. The author even makes all this boring stuff sound
interesting and romantic.
Ratings for “In/Out Law”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“Trinity Trilogy Novel 5/14” by Tom Trinity (stbush@iglou.com). In
this segment Tom meets the twins. Teri and Toni are so identical that
a man would have to be very lucky to find the secret to telling them
apart. By the end of the first day of the convention, Tom could tell
them apart, but only under certain, specific, preorgasmic conditions.
However, Tom doesn’t deal with these twins alone (or alone together, I
guess) but rather as part of a fivesome that includes his bosom buddies
<heh, heh!> Judy and Candy.
In bygone days I would have tried to count the orgasms. I have long
ago abandoned hope of enumerating the Trinity Trilogy orgasms. The
only way to keep track of these people would be to put a seismometer in
the room.
In another chapter we witness Tom performing one of his most important
services to society - deflowering another virgin. With the assistance
of the other two girls, he initiates the overweight woman tenderly.
With any luck, she’ll become an aficionado of sex just like Candy - or
was it Judy - whose cherry Tom popped back in Chapter 1.
As I have read these weekly segments, I have been impressed with the
quality of the writing. Whenever I started to say to myself that this
was too much of the same thing over and over, something new would pop
up. This week we had the twins and an emphasis on anal sex. However,
as I said above, I have found it to be futile to try to keep track of
the orgasms.
So last night I asked my husband if he’d like to have sex more often
and with a wider variety of people. “Sure!” he said, as he removed his
pants. But he was just being macho. When I pressed him
(metaphorically), he acknowledged that we were doing just fine. We
have been married a long time, and we have pretty good sex about five
times a week. Comparisons with others don’t really matter; but the sex
surveys say we’re above average in frequency of intercourse. I simply
don’t WANT to do it five times a DAY. That would be thirty-five times
a week, for godsake. With all due respect, I’m not even sure my
husband CAN do it that often. In fact, I can tell when he’s planning a
special surprise for me; because before a real binge he always abstains
for a couple of days so that we can fuck like rabbits for the special
occasion. Me? I can just spread my legs and....
I think at some point excessively frequent sex would become analogous
to having steak every day - after a while, steak would no longer be a
treat - or like having a birthday everyday, so that birthdays would no
longer be special. As it is, we do a lot of interesting things
together (as well as apart), and then we have these really special
moments together. I dunno. Maybe I’m in a bad mood. I hear my
husband in the shower. I think I’ll join him and see how he responds
to a blow job.
Ratings for “Trinity Trilogy Novel 5/14”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“Memories of Underdevelopment” by Estragon (an573847@anon.penet.fi).
Erica and Leila are two fifteen year old girls who are beginning to
discover their own sexuality. Little by little, they start with what
they know about boys just from instinct, and then imagine things
together, out loud, that they would only have let themselves imagine in
private before; and then they try some of those things out for real, on
real males; and then they build on what they have learned.
One day Erica says, "It's strange. Girls let all kinds of guys they're
going to break up with in a week touch them and learn all about them,
and their best friend who they'll love forever has no idea what their
nipples or slot look like...." And so they head for Leila’s house, get
naked, and explore each other’s bodies. Sounds normal to me. Like
many of Estragon’s stories, this one starts with perfectly normal,
sensible activities and emotions like these and builds to the point
where readers will suddenly realize that they are accepting as normal
activities that they would previously have viewed as bizarre.
In other words, Estragon has fiendishly combined the Socratic dialogue
with the short story and feminist ideology.
Careful research shows that males outnumber females on this newsgroup.
I can’t explain this, although I’m sure Erica and Leila could
demonstrate that it is this way because women want it this way. My
point is that large numbers of male readers will read this story and
wonder whether young girls really do lie around playing with each
other’s bodies, giving pleasure to each other and devising plans for
subjugating males to be pussy whipped. {The story gives a delightful
discussion of this term.} On the surface, most men probably reject the
idea as foolish; they know their girlfriends and lovers, and these
people are nice to their male friends. But isn’t it possible that
that’s just part of the facade? Maybe the girlfriends and lovers are
smart enough to not let the dumb males know that they are being pussy
whipped. Maybe there really is this huge conspiracy going on, but
maybe we women are just smart enough to keep our slaves happy by
letting them foolishly believe that they are the masters. Makes sense
to me.
I truly love Estragon’s writings, and I don’t want to betray the
Sisterhood; but I’m going to tell you a secret. When I was an
adolescent girl, I did NOT sit around with a girlfriend and devise ways
to subjugate males. I never once stuck a boy in the balls with the
backside of a spoon, nor did I pee on a male of the species who was
begging me to do so. However, as I grew older, in dorms and locker
rooms we girls did metaphorically do these things. Although I don’t
know anyone who actually did cut off a boy’s or man’s testicles, I do
know lots of girls who took delight in emasculating their boyfriends in
more socially acceptable ways; and I myself often enjoyed giving one of
these assholes a metaphorical kick in the balls.
What I am saying is that I doubt that many young girls literally do the
things that Erica and Leila do; but a very large number of mature women
(myself included) read this story and say, “That’s not an entirely bad
idea!”
In short, this story is sort of a thinking person’s “Thelma and
Louise.”
Most of my correspondents think that Estragon is a man. I have no
direct knowledge to the contrary, but I suspect that she is a woman.
If Estragon is a man, he’s a genius to have insights like this into the
female psyche; and as Estragon herself would point out, men just aren’t
all that smart. Ergo, Estragon must be a woman - and a damned good
writer besides. On the other hand, Aristophanes was a man, and he
wrote Lysistrata.
Don’t be scared off by my references to Socratic dialogues, to feminine
psyches, and all that technical jargon. And don’t you guys be afraid
that you’ll become emasculated by reading this story. And who cares if
this IS reality? If Estragon is right, you guys too dumb to realize it
anyway. Just read this story and enjoy it! If you do so and then ask
real politely, maybe a nice lady will let you get naked for her.
Ratings for “Memories of Underdevelopment”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“Sarah and Sister Theresa” by Ann Douglas (AnnD55@Pipeline.Com). Nuns
have always interested me. In my days as a Catholic school student I
hated the bitches because they were so petty and self-righteous and
admired them because they were so pretty and so dedicated. In my adult
days I have easily reconciled these conflicting images by realizing
that the nuns I knew had individual personalities just like anyone
else. One of my closest friends became a nun (actually, a sister -
there’s a difference, she tells me) and subsequently quit her order and
got married. She’s about as normal as anyone else. She still goes to
meetings of ex-nuns and continues to meet with her friends who are
still nuns; and she says that ex-nuns are about the same as ex-golfers,
ex-engineers, and ex-politicians.
She assures me that the stories about secret passages between convents
and rectories and about aborted children of illicit unions between
priests and nuns being buried in secret basement cemeteries are
essentially vicious rumors. However, she hastens to add that she knows
very little about bishops and popes, and so these rumors may be true
about the upper hierarchy. {My friend has very little respect for
upper hierarchies}. My friend tells me that there seem to have been
two main reasons for women her age (currently 40+) entering the
convent: dedication to the service of others and an inability to get
along with men. Actually, my friend feels that the reasons acted
jointly: many women who had trouble getting along with men would find
the convent an honorable way out - becoming a dedicated nun seemed a
lot more honorable than becoming a lesbian or an old maid. My friend
thinks that lots of young men became priests for the same reasons.
My friend tells me that ex-nuns (and presumably real nuns) are not
especially inclined to be lesbians. She believes that about 20% of her
friends who have left the convent are practicing lesbians; the rest
have either remained celibate or have entered heterosexual
relationships. While in the convent, nuns are required to avoid
relationships with men (because of their vows of celibacy/virginity),
and so whatever relationships they do develop are likely to be with
women. However, genital contact is considered sinful; and an active
lesbian would be booted out of most orders. They’re supposed to
sublimate (as Freud would put it) or be a bride of Christ (as mother
superior would put it). My friend maintains that the avoidance of sex
or the clandestine practice of sex turned some women into real bitches;
but many others were (and are) exceptionally intelligent and dedicated
people. It is my own opinion that lots of ex-nuns read the stories on
this newsgroup; they just don’t advertise that fact.
I told my friend she should write a book. She says maybe she will; but
I don’t think she’ll post it on this newsgroup. So I thought I should
share this information with you as an introduction to this repost of
Ann Douglas’s excellent story. Too often people post stories about
nuns in which either (1) the nuns are in heat, trying to seduce little
kids, or (2) a bunch of sinister studs rape the nuns. These stories
may be enjoyable in their own right, but I like an occasional story
about normal people who are in love. The character portrayed by Ann in
this story is more in line with the dedicated nuns my friend knew.
In this story, Sarah is a young woman who teaches in the same school
with Sister Theresa, a young nun who had been Sarah’s teacher several
years earlier. In fact, it was partly because Sarah had spied on
Sister Theresa in the shower that Sarah had come to the conclusion that
she was herself a lesbian. At the end of a long school day Sarah’s car
breaks down; and she has to spend the night at the convent, sharing a
room with Sister Theresa. In the middle of the night, Sarah awakens to
find Sister Theresa masturbating and calling out another nun’s name in
her sleep. You’ll have to read the story yourself to find out what
comes next. Right now I’ll just assure you that it’s hot and romantic
but not sleazy.
Ratings for “Sarah and Sister Theresa”
Athena (technical quality): 9.5
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“BiGirls” by Vickie Tern (VickieTern@aol.com). Craig has stumbled onto
a group of women who call themselves the BiGirls. They are bisexuals
who enjoy giving pleasure to each other as well as to their husbands or
boyfriends; and they take pleasure from each other the same way, and
see no harm in doing so. But their husbands might not understand. So
they don't want Craig snooping around to take pictures of them to use
to blackmail them into not blackmailing him, so that he can blackmail
them into selling insurance to their husbands. From now on, when
they’re meeting, they'll want to know exactly where Craig is. And
that'll be right there with them at their little sex session. Thus does
Craig become an honorary member of the BiGirls Club.
Kinda catches your attention, doesn’t it?
Of course there are catches and conditions. For example, Craig has to
wear female clothing during the meetings and has to act as much as
possible like a woman. This may sound humiliating; but the way the
author presents it, Craig actually enjoys it immensely. The activity
even improves his sex life with his wife. A Club rule is that a BiGirl
who is unoccupied at a meeting can never refuse another member's
request, and Craig soon begins looking for interesting things to do
with each of the other ladies. Anything at all is permitted, as long
as it is something one woman can do with another.
Oh - and Craig also takes medication, so that his erections become
fewer and softer. At BiGirl meetings all danger of inadvertent
penetration eventually ends. Craig progresses very well, and the other
girls practically applaud the first time he takes a dildo up the ass.
The other girls become openly affectionate toward Craig. The
experience brings out his feminine side - making him a better person.
Eventually Craig is seriously considering going for full rather than
honorary membership in the Club (without surgery, of course); but then
his wife throws in a monkey wrench, so to speak. Things get very
complicated. As usual, the last quarter of the story is full of
surprises; and this author does a great job of making even the most
bizarre events seem perfectly sensible by the end of the story.
Ratings for “BiGirls”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
“Taking Chances” by Javahead (an217242@anon.penet.fi). I came across
this story in the THC archives under the enticing title “Guy Shares His
Wife with a Friend.” That title summarizes the story all right, but it
leaves out the nuances that make the story interesting.
When his wife asks him to tell her a sexy story while they make love,
the man’s suggestions reveal to her that their fantasies overlap: he
would like to see her being fucked by another man, and she would like
to make love to another man while her husband watched. These are not
ordinary swingers. At first they are stymied when they try to bring
their mutual fantasy to realization; but then Rich, an old college
friend of the husband who is obviously attracted to the wife, comes for
a visit. They perform sex in a variety of wonderful ways; then Rich
goes home and they all live happily ever after.
This is a very good story. The author employs a refreshing blend of
informality and literacy to tell a really hot story. Although I found
this plot to be extremely erotic and enjoyable, I would not want to do
these things in my actual life - even if I could be assured of avoiding
diseases. The way I value sex in my relationship with my husband, it
simply does not make sense to involve a third person. Our relationship
is necessarily possessive and exclusive, and I cannot imagine that
working with a third party - who might accidentally become more
involved with me (for example) than we had planned - or vice versa.
Maybe some of you are stronger emotionally than my husband and I are or
maybe you have a different kind of relationship with your spouse; and
in that case this story may represent an ideal for you. For my part, I
think there are some things that are fun to think about but just aren’t
worth doing in real life.
I have on several occasions made love to my husband in the same general
area - even adjacent beds - where another couple was making love; but
we employed a hands-off policy with regard to the other spouses. This
was wonderful. I have also watched others making love while my husband
fondled and even made love to me. This was wonderful. But if we were
to involve the others in our own lovemaking, we would be running the
risk of hurting someone, and that might not be so wonderful.
That’s one of the reasons I like these stories on a.s.s. I can read
and enjoy these stories and fantasize about them and even act them out
with my husband. There’s no risk that anyone will be hurt. On the
other hand, if I were to hit the chat lines and present myself falsely
to someone else, then there would be a chance that something would
develop that would hurt me, that person, our spouses, or our children.
It’s not worth the risk.
I don’t mean to give a moral lecture or to try to talk anyone out of
chat lines, cybersex, threesomes, or anything else. We all have to
figure out what’s right and good for ourselves. I’m just singing the
praises of stories like this one. They offer a low-risk environment
for enriching our own lives.
When I first opened this story, I thought “I’ve read this story
before!”; but a quick check of my database revealed that I had reviewed
five stories by this author (none with a rating below 9, incidentally);
but none with the word “Chances” in the title. But I KNEW I had read
the story. As I looked at the first line - “Tell me a story....” - I
assumed that the husband would tell the wife a really sexy story that
would lead to really sexy sex that kind of mixed in with the really
sexy sex in the really sexy story. That wasn’t quite accurate for the
present story. To make my own long story short, I checked all five of
the Javahead stories, and none of them matched the present story. Then
I tried popping “Tell Me a Story” into my database. Voila! A match!
I had the culprit. But no, “Tell Me a Story” was written by Smoot2.
It had a similar story line; but it was clearly a distinct story. In
fact it was rated number 30 on my list of the Top Hundred Stories of
1995. Although Smoot2 may have been influenced by Javahead, these were
two separate creative endeavors, not duplication or plagiarism. I’m
taking the opportunity to repost the review of the Smoot2 story (since
I have just reread it). Maybe Smoot2 will repost it for us.
Ratings for “Taking Chances”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
*"Tell Me a Story" by smoot2 (smoot2@ix.netcom.com). After a session
of good sex, a woman asks her lover to tell her a story. He responds
with an erotic tale. While she listens, she brings him and herself to
an even better orgasm. Ummm! Tell me another story! I could handle
about 1001 Nights of This.
This story is by the author of "Lyrical Fantasy," which I reviewed in
CR 27. That story, I said, was a good story that was ruined by faulty
proofreading and bad formatting. I added that if this author ironed
the kinks out of his writing, his work would be in a class with the
writings of Deidre and Tammy Ng - which is a pretty good class. See!
I was right! This is a wonderful story.
I would like to take credit for this improvement, but unless smoot2 and
I did some time traveling or mental telepathy, he did this on his own.
However, my point is still valid: the main difference between this
story and the author's previous attempt is that this one is presented
better. It's not that the author's exceptional creativity is
unimportant - it's just that by cleaning up his final draft of this
story he lets us see what he really has to say. With "Lyrical Fantasy"
I was constantly distracted by the way the story was presented to me;
in this story there still were grammar mistakes, but I skipped right
past them and was distracted only by a warm, moist feeling in my pussy.
I like this kind of distraction much better.
Ratings for “Tell Me a Story”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
*"Churche House" by Deb Atwood. This story from the THC archives one
is about a college woman and a slightly older male graduate student who
live in some sort of residence associated with their school. At the
beginning of the story the woman has started writing an erotic story of
her own, and her first meeting with the guy occurs when he glances over
her shoulder while she is typing in horny rapture.
After they have dinner and while the guy goes to a meeting, the girl
finishes her story, prints out a copy, and puts it under the guy's
door. "This is my kind of woman!" says I to myself. "She's hoping
he'll proofread it, correct the errors, and give her constructive
feedback." Actually, she's hoping to get laid. I've never thought of
that; I suppose someone could write erotic stories for some ulterior
motive rather than for the intrinsic motivation inherent in giving
birth to a work of literature. Also, this story has one of my favorite
pickup lines: "You're beautiful when you're having an orgasm." I guess
it isn't really a pickup line when my husband says that to me. To be
an official pickup line it would have to be, "I'll bet you're beautiful
when you're having an orgasm."
This is a very good story, but it reveals one of the shortcomings of
reposts. This repost was labeled Chapter 1; and THC posted only this
single chapter. After I originally posted this review. its author (Deb
Atwood) contacted me and said there are no more chapters. I guess it’s
hard for reposters to keep track of that kind of information.
Ratings for “Churche House”
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5